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How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 / Jonathan Scott
Review Date: 17 July 2020
Jonathan Scott, Professor of History at the University of Auckland, in his recent book, How the Old World Ended (2019), has provided an intellectual bridge between the early modern period and the modern world, which was born out of the Industrial Revolution.
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership / eds. Nick Draper, Rachel Lang, Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington, Kristy Warren
Review Date: 14 September 2017
In 1833, after centuries of resistance and rebellion by enslaved people, decades of popularly-mobilized antislavery protests, and years of economic struggle on colonial plantations, England’s Parliament initiated the process of slave emancipation in the British Empire.
Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meaning of the American Civil War / eds. David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis
Review Date: 13 November 2014
Research into the global and transnational dimensions of the American Civil War is indisputably in vogue. Over the last half-decade or so a plethora of conferences, symposia, and discussion panels – many of which have matured into special issues and edited collections – have been convened to explore and encourage the internationalization of American history.(1) In some ways the success of these efforts is already evident.
Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade / James Walvin
Review Date: 27 February 2014
For every large historical topic – and the transatlantic slave trade is certainly a large one – there is a need for good small books to introduce the academic understanding of the topic to students and the general public. The writing of a good small book on a large topic, however, can be no small challenge.